Delhi police have busted a suspected al-Qaida cell and arrested a founder member of the jihadist group’s India wing, officials said Thursday. Police said they had arrested “radical extremist” Mohammed Asif, 41, who allegedly led the group’s recruitment and training wing in India and was a founder member of al-Qaida on the subcontinent. “Long and intense periods of deploying human ...

Marada Movement leader MP Suleiman Franjieh announced Thursday that he insists on his presidential nomination “more than ever before,” as he described his relation with his ally Change and Reform bloc chief MP Michel Aoun as “abnormal.” “Today more than ever before, I consider myself to be a presidential candidate but I will let General Aoun take his chance. As ...

Germany will reduce its migrant influx, Chancellor Angela Merkel promised her conservative party Monday, insisting that she’s still confident her diplomatic efforts will work and Europe will pass the “historic test” posed by the refugee crisis. Germany has seen about a million asylum-seekers arrive this year. Merkel has declared that “we will manage it,” but some in her conservative bloc ...

Syrian troops recaptured a military airport and nearby town east of Damascus on Monday, more than three years after they were overrun by rebel groups. “The Syrian army has taken full control of the town of Marj al-Sultan and its airport in Eastern Ghouta,” a rebel bastion east of the capital, the military source said. Rebel groups seized the airport, ...

U.S. President Barack Obama voiced renewed determination to destroy the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group Monday, vowing to win back territory in the Middle East and kill the group’s leaders. Sounding a notably more strident tone, Obama said that the United States and its allies were taking the fight to ISIS in Iraq and Syria. “We are ...

Police in Sydney have arrested a 15-year-old and a 20-year-old in a counter-terror operation. They have been charged with “conspiracy to conduct an act in preparation for a terrorist act”, Federal Police said. The arrests are linked to a plot outlined in material seized last year as part of Operation Appleby. That operation, in September 2014, was sparked by intelligence ...

A Melbourne siege has come to a dramatic end after multiple gunshots were heard just and police officers stormed inside the home. A man armed with a knife had been keeping police at bay at a property on Dandenong Road East at Frankston since about 5:30pm on Monday, with four people inside. The siege ended Tuesday morning when police entered the ...

Less than an hour after signing his first professional contract, 20-year-old Shaquille O’Neal had already spent his first million. “The first thing I wanted to do was relieve my parents of their jobs,” O’Neal told the media ahead of the new 2015-2016 NBA season in Oakland, California. “I (spent) a million dollars in about 45 minutes, but it was well ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vehemently opposed the recently inked Iran nuclear agreement — but now he wants to make sure Iran lives up to its end of the pact. “Now that it’s done, let’s look forward. Let’s keep Iran’s feet to the fire. Let’s make sure that they keep all their obligations under the nuclear deal. That’s the first ...

Canada’s new leader-in-waiting says he intends to follow through on his campaign promise to pull the country out of the U.S.-led bombing campaign against ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq. Justin Trudeau, who led the Liberal Party to a stunning victory in elections Monday, said he has already told U.S. President Barack Obama of his plans. “He understands the commitments ...